March 31, 2011
problem
Facebook requires that you use your own identity but it is still possible to create a false identity.
The problem with Facebook is privacy. Everything that you put up on its pages has limited personal privacy. More importantly, Facebook has the right to change the rules.
Recently, my advisor showed us a few of his graduate school pictures and it made me realize that future students of mine will have little problem finding pictures of me and information about me as a student. No more are our profiles hidden in books in a physical library but we all can be found with a few clicks in a search engine. Not only our information but Facebook has information about our collection of networks and communities.
I refuse to be a node in their matrix. Though I use Facebook, I rebel against exactly how much information can be gathered.
In other news, Republicans hold government for ransom. In other words, they can hold their breath until the next election.
Why isn't the question from this diagram about global scientific citations how come Britain, Germany, and Japan do so well? Someone told me recently that in certain subjects, the Japanese researchers translates all the papers into their own language.
Posted by azileretsis at March 31, 2011 05:49 PM
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